On April 23, the Rockets continued to challenge the Minnesota Timberwolves on the road. The first half was tied at 50-49, with the Rockets leading by just one point.

Another chance for the Timberwolves?

If they can resist the collapse of the third quarter...

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Mike D'Antoni lineup for the second half: Yang Yiming, PJ Tucker, Trevor Ariza, James Harden, Chris Paul.

The three or four players who can be rotated infinitely in three positions sit on the inside, and the outside dual-core drives, and the Rockets want to speed up!

In the first round, Jimmy Butler singled Yang Yiming. Yang Yiming learned the lesson of the previous defensive disadvantage this time, gave up too much physical confrontation interference, and instead focused on blocking and delaying, suppressing with height advantage without losing position. Butler was really uncomfortable, avoiding a covered high-arc shot that smashed the board, and Karl Towns grabbed the rebound, but quickly fell into the double of Tucker and Ariza. He chose to return the outside line, and was quickly cut off by Yang Yiming.

Harden dribbles forward, kills to the basket, and shoots to the ball.

Downs made a mistake in passing, and he was unwilling, so he turned around and pulled to the outside to catch the ball and shoot. Although the shot was vacant, once his three-point shot was missed, the Timberwolves had no high point in the restricted area at all, and the defensive rebound was accepted by Yang Yiming. Yang Yiming gave the ball to Paul, and Paul took advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold and hit a three-point shot.

Butler and Downs are all ineffective, and Wiggins of the Little Big Three naturally wants to "stand up". He used his height advantage to pull out a three-pointer in front of Paul and try to return the color. But although Paul is not tall enough, no one in the entire league dares to say that he can start faster than the bottom three. He wrenched his hand to Wiggins' basketball, who had taken out the shot but had exhausted too much effort to get rid of it. Wiggins hollowed out the basket, Ariza received the rebound, and the long pass directly to Harden in the frontcourt. Harden faked to fly Gibson and made a three-point shooting foul!

Three free throws!

The home team's Wiggins shot was defended by Paul and did not blow a foul, and Harden easily leaned on Gibson and cheated three free throws, and the Timberwolves fans in the center of the target did not do it. But protests and boos were useless, and Harden steadily put all three free throws into the basket.

Unconvinced, the Timberwolves "Wei Shao" Wiggins wanted to respond, dribbling into the restricted area. The experienced PJ Tucker saw that he was a one-way to the black, and took the lead to create an offensive foul on Wiggins.

Boo, the referee's voice became even stronger.

It's a pity that so what. Harden's counter-attacking shot didn't go in, and the boos didn't help the home team protect the rebound, but Yang Yiming stabbed it in diagonally, and he had already begun to retreat, and then he turned back and intercepted it into his own offensive rebound before Butler closed the ball. didn't let Yang Yiming go straight to the basket, and Butler had to pull him down.

The Rockets' sideline ball went directly to Paul, and the three points were hit again!

After scoring 11 points in a row, the Timberwolves finally stopped the loss. Downs scored two points on a small hook basket. But who knows, Harden's lost steps attracted a bunch of Timberwolves defense, Yang Yiming went down quickly, Harden hit the ground to divide the ball, Yang Yiming stopped and shot, and added two more points.

13 to 2 attack wave! Thibodeau called a halt!

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But this timeout consumed by Thibodeau was completely ineffective, just because they couldn't defend one of the Rockets:

James Harden.

Harden hit the board on a fast break, and Butler hit a three-pointer.

Harden made a three-pointer and Harden scored on the frame.

Butler fouled on offense, Butler missed the board, Jeff Teague missed the shot, and Harden assisted Yang Yiming to make a three-point shot.

Butler missed the shot, Wiggins missed the pass, and Harden assisted Paul for a foul and made two free throws.

No matter who the Timberwolves are, Harden can easily deal with it on the backhand, and what is even more terrifying is that why the Timberwolves can't score the ball that they are embarrassed by, and Harden can easily finish it on the other end!

In the end, Towns finally made a desperate basket and scored a frontcourt rebound (suspected of elbowing a defender), and dunked in the Rockets restricted area to add two points.

D'Antoni called a timeout rather cooperatively, and then looked at the score? Where is the Timberwolves getting up to recover the score, "Old Man McT" just wants to freeze the score difference and show it to the home fans! 77 to 58!

By the way, change someone and continue to attack!

Eric Gordon replaces Paul, Clint Capela replaces P.J. Tucker, and the Rockets are back to their traditional one-to-five lineup.

It's just that the scoring posture has been opened, the tradition is not traditional, and the rocket can't stop it!

Harden made a three-pointer, 80-58.

Wiggins pulled back two points from a free throw and Harden added three points to make it 83-60.

Gordon, Wiggins, Ariza, and Teague missed consecutive three-point shots, and it was Harden who set up order, he passed Capela in seconds, and was fouled in the air. Capela hit two free throws to make it 85-60.

Then the two teams took turns to score, and the score rose to 90-65, but in the last two minutes of the game, the Rockets set off an offensive frenzy!

Paul played into Downs and scored two points on a step-back jumper.

Paul once again singled out the Timberwolves inside, and this time the Rockets had Capela and Yang Yiming to pick up. Paul faked to hit the ground to pass, Downs stretched out his foot to block, facing Downs who stood on the ground with one foot and couldn't jump, Paul smiled and threw the basketball into the air. It may be that the bread is too easy to eat, and Capella is still a little reluctant, and his basket is flown away, and the bread that came to his mouth is spit out again. Yang Yiming on the other end of the paint area also smiled slightly. He accepted the gift of a frontcourt rebound from his teammates and threw a board. As soon as Capela's hand was released from the basket, Yang Yiming's ball fell into the net closely, as if the whole process from passing to dunking to scoring on the board was arranged in advance.

The last minute of the third quarter!

Not willing to be lonely, Gordon drew his bow and arrows and shot a three-pointer. The three-pointer bounced over the basket, over the top edge of the rebound, and finally landed in the pocket. The balloon can also go in, and this time it was Gordon's turn to smile. The Rockets' score rose to 97 points!

You must know that before half-time, this score is still... 50 points!

With less than 30 seconds left, the Timberwolves clearly didn't want to be scored 50 points in a single quarter, and Wiggins controlled the ball and pressed the offensive time until the final three seconds before shooting outside the three-point line. He can score three-pointers, but the Rockets have already sent out a lightning-fast baseline shot!

Paul ran wildly, Gordon, Yang Yiming, and Harden fired three arrows at the same time!

Capela ambushed Paul's advance line - a tactic they had practiced many times, and 6 seconds of offensive time was more than enough for the Rockets!

At 45 degrees on the left, Paul and Capela attracted two Timberwolves defenders, and Yang Yiming, who responded to the 45-degree arc on the right, was empty. Paul went around the wrist and flicked, Yang Yiming received the ball and shot, and the light turned on and the ball went in. The referee's video confirmed the time of the shot, and it was before the red light came on that the basketball was completely out of the palm of the hand, and there was no problem with the three points!

100 to 69!

In this quarter, the Rockets scored 50 points!

Harden scored 22 points in a single quarter, and Yang Yiming helped add 13 points. The Timberwolves only scored 20 points as a team, and they were bombarded in the first quarter!

Fantasizing about winning G4 and fighting for Tianwang Mountain?

The whole rocket team smiled slightly: It's just your wolf cubs' fantasy, heheda.